We have much to learn from British Muslims about dignity, respect and family care - Yorkshire Post Letters
John Vaughan, Ilkley.
In your letters of April 13, two of your writers speak against Islam, the religion of peace, in quite aggressive overtones. Barrie Crowther reckons our children will suffer unless we stop Islam while Robert Dring says we should act like the wahabi royalty of Saudi Arabia and ban religions we don't like.
As I am in the middle of writing a book entitled 'Farage, Islam and British values', I would like to ask your readers to consider a couple of points and see what they think.
Christianity was founded by the Romans about 300 years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth. Wikipedia calls Nazareth the 'Arab capital of Israel'. Hello, already! Israel was created in 1948 on stolen Palestinian land so Jesus was a Palestinian and he spoke Aramaic, a Semitic language.
Jesus is also the second prophet in Islam and real Muslims are guided by his teaching everywhere because it adheres always to universal values not the ones of Farage and little Englanders.
I ask you, if Jesus were to be born in Palestine today, would he be a Muslim or a Christian? We have much to learn from these lovely people, particularly Brits with a Pakistani heritage - dignity, respect and family care - or should we follow Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu?